Photo Credit: Don Sanford
This past weekend a Madison iceboater Grant Frautschi of the 4LIYC won the 2006 Nite National Championship up on Lake Winnebago. In a strong fleet of 30 plus boats he was able to amass a significant 8 point lead and win the National Championship.
On Sunday Grant showed us that he knew how to make his boat go when the wind piped up too. Sunday’s races began at 9 a.m. in a moderate, 12 mph breeze, which by 10 had filled in to a steady 18 then built to 23 by the time the final race of the day’s 5 race series was completed around 1:30 p.m. No accidents were reported or observed in the 33-boat fleet during the 2-day, 6 race series skillfully managed by PRO Andy Gratton of the Oshkosh Ice Yacht Club.
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